Gold Standard
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“Mahathir Says Currency Trading ‘Silly’, Advocates Return to Peg”
“Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who fought off an attack on the ringgit with capital controls during the Asian financial crisis, said currency trading is “silly” and the world should return to the Bretton Woods System of fixed exchange rates. Currency wars are futile and the U.S. Federal Reserve’s latest quantitative easing plan will…
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“Back to a Gold Standard?”
“The gold standard shackled central bankers to a sinking ship. When countries left the gold standard, they began to recover. Countries that were never on the gold standard had very mild recessions during the Great Depression. Why would we ever want to return to such a flawed way of organizing monetary policy? But the current…
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Getting on Track
On Wednesday, November 10, Sound Money held a panel at annual Liberty Forum hosted by Atlas. The panel featured Judy Shelton, Sean Fieler and Steven Horwitz, with Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks acting as moderator. Perhaps it is a bit self-serving to say that it was excellent, but the point still stands. I, personally, had little…
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A Return to the Gold Standard? – Richard Ebeling
“Monetary central planning has worked no better than any other form of central planning over the last one hundred years. The world’s central bankers – just like the central planners in the old Soviet Union – just do not have the knowledge, wisdom and ability to successful manage the monetary system of a market economy.…
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“Toward a Free-Market Money”
“Despite the overwhelming evidence that markets perform best when left alone by the government, it is still virtually taken for granted that one consumer product should be completely controlled by every government in the world. One product, so ubiquitous, that it’s used by almost everyone in the world on a daily basis: money. Money is…
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“Managed Money” – Alan Reynolds
“Hypothetical monetary systems always look better than actual experience. Economists therefore view their responsibility as deciding what characteristics money ought to have, then imposing that money on the public. The same economists presumably would not dictate what sorts of shoes we should have, or how many, or one what terms. The question of why economists…
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“100 Percent Reserve Money: The Small Change Challenge” – George Selgin
“In a free market economy from which fiduciary media are excluded, economic progress will be limited, perhaps severely, by the high cost and correspondingly limited supply of small-denomination money—money that is needed to accomplish retail and other low-value exchanges. Historically, fiduciary token coins have proven to be the only practical means for addressing the small…
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“It’s Time for a 21st Century Gold Standard”
“No monetary system, including gold, is perfect. But the evidence is that the gold standard is a recipe for lower-than-predicted federal interest rates (quelling the coming fiscal crisis); lower corporate bond rates (jobs); and lower mortgage rates (relief to millions of upside down homeowners). The gold standard sounds picturesque. In reality it is a technical,…
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“Rising Gold Prices Affect Local Companies”
“In financial circles, analysts credit the rising price of gold to an unlikely duo: investors seeking shelter and central bankers from India, Bangladesh and other developing countries. Both are wary of a falling dollar. It starts with low interest rates. Central banks usually hold currencies from the world’s largest economies — dollars, pounds and yen…
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Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History
“Nobel Prize-winner Milton Friedman — dubbed ‘the Oliver Stone of economists’ by the Chicago Tribune — makes clear once and for all that no one, from the local corner merchant to the Wall Street banker to the president of the United States, is immune from monetary economics. In Money Mischief, Friedman discusses the creation of…
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“Mahathir Says Currency Trading ‘Silly’, Advocates Return to Peg”
“Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who fought off an attack on the ringgit with capital controls during the Asian financial crisis, said currency trading is “silly” and the world should return to the Bretton Woods System of fixed exchange rates. Currency wars are futile and the U.S. Federal Reserve’s latest quantitative easing plan will…
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“Back to a Gold Standard?”
“The gold standard shackled central bankers to a sinking ship. When countries left the gold standard, they began to recover. Countries that were never on the gold standard had very mild recessions during the Great Depression. Why would we ever want to return to such a flawed way of organizing monetary policy? But the current…
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Getting on Track
On Wednesday, November 10, Sound Money held a panel at annual Liberty Forum hosted by Atlas. The panel featured Judy Shelton, Sean Fieler and Steven Horwitz, with Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks acting as moderator. Perhaps it is a bit self-serving to say that it was excellent, but the point still stands. I, personally, had little…
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A Return to the Gold Standard? – Richard Ebeling
“Monetary central planning has worked no better than any other form of central planning over the last one hundred years. The world’s central bankers – just like the central planners in the old Soviet Union – just do not have the knowledge, wisdom and ability to successful manage the monetary system of a market economy.…
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“Toward a Free-Market Money”
“Despite the overwhelming evidence that markets perform best when left alone by the government, it is still virtually taken for granted that one consumer product should be completely controlled by every government in the world. One product, so ubiquitous, that it’s used by almost everyone in the world on a daily basis: money. Money is…
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“Managed Money” – Alan Reynolds
“Hypothetical monetary systems always look better than actual experience. Economists therefore view their responsibility as deciding what characteristics money ought to have, then imposing that money on the public. The same economists presumably would not dictate what sorts of shoes we should have, or how many, or one what terms. The question of why economists…
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“100 Percent Reserve Money: The Small Change Challenge” – George Selgin
“In a free market economy from which fiduciary media are excluded, economic progress will be limited, perhaps severely, by the high cost and correspondingly limited supply of small-denomination money—money that is needed to accomplish retail and other low-value exchanges. Historically, fiduciary token coins have proven to be the only practical means for addressing the small…
-
“It’s Time for a 21st Century Gold Standard”
“No monetary system, including gold, is perfect. But the evidence is that the gold standard is a recipe for lower-than-predicted federal interest rates (quelling the coming fiscal crisis); lower corporate bond rates (jobs); and lower mortgage rates (relief to millions of upside down homeowners). The gold standard sounds picturesque. In reality it is a technical,…
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“Rising Gold Prices Affect Local Companies”
“In financial circles, analysts credit the rising price of gold to an unlikely duo: investors seeking shelter and central bankers from India, Bangladesh and other developing countries. Both are wary of a falling dollar. It starts with low interest rates. Central banks usually hold currencies from the world’s largest economies — dollars, pounds and yen…
-
Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History
“Nobel Prize-winner Milton Friedman — dubbed ‘the Oliver Stone of economists’ by the Chicago Tribune — makes clear once and for all that no one, from the local corner merchant to the Wall Street banker to the president of the United States, is immune from monetary economics. In Money Mischief, Friedman discusses the creation of…
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